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Coughing up €360 million

Tuesday, 18 August 2015, 11:18 Last update: about 12 years ago Gejtu Vella

The Feast of the Assumption, in common parlance, known as “Il-Festa ta’ Santa Maria” which was celebrated last Saturday is intertwined in our socio-economic, religious, historical,...

Balm of mercy for the family

Tuesday, 18 August 2015, 10:53 Last update: about 12 years ago Bishop Mario Grech

The family: locus of shelter and love  When the silvery moon glimmers in the evening summer sky my mind dwells upon those who at the end of a day’s work return home. Many open the door of...

It’s not (only) about the money

Tuesday, 18 August 2015, 08:08 Last update: about 12 years ago Stephen Calleja

Apart from the freak weather we had – the kind of which I enjoy – the Santa Marija week this year will be remembered for the unprecedented decision taken by the government to sustain a...

The loan to ElectroGas

Tuesday, 18 August 2015, 08:01 Last update: about 12 years ago Simon Mercieca

The fact that the Government should not have guaranteed the ElectroGas loan is to be found in the company’s statement issued after the Opposition had lambasted the fact that Bank of Valletta is...

Guarantees

Monday, 17 August 2015, 08:08 Last update: about 12 years ago Alfred Sant

The controversy about the guarantees that government extended over the bank loans to cover the building of the new power station has become like the proverbial mountain out of a molehill. But not...

Dak li l-lejl ma jhallikx tghid

Monday, 17 August 2015, 08:02 Last update: about 12 years ago Marlene Farrugia

I had ravaging  teenage acne. Just when I had started to pluck enough courage to crawl out of my rural shell, and replace the  book dust  on my clothes with human...

Santa Maria notebook

Sunday, 16 August 2015, 11:16 Last update: about 12 years ago Daphne Caruana Galizia

The child abuse/sex crimes investigations in Britain right now are in themselves turning into a travesty of justice, with dead politicians like the Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath subjected...

The flaw at the centre of our nation

Sunday, 16 August 2015, 10:45 Last update: about 12 years ago Noel Grima

I was completely unaware of the case until I was reading (still am) for reviewing purposes an account of the speeches made at what was called The President’s Forum which took place on 21 April...

Language and the EU consumer

Sunday, 16 August 2015, 10:30 Last update: about 12 years ago Charles Flores

The social media is regularly agog with complaints and protestations over the fact that Malta is suddenly replete with foreigner workers who cannot speak the national language. Many of them working in...

Sound governance protects the environment

Sunday, 16 August 2015, 10:00 Last update: about 12 years ago Carmel Cacopardo

Protection of the environment is not achieved in proportion to the number of authorities established to deal with the environment, resources and land use planning. In fact, subject to sound...

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